Superb as a take-everywhere camera. Quick to first shot as there is no zoom and the lens is fixed. Also no out-of-focus shots when taking quick "snaps". Quality is fine to say 6x4 inches on a decent printer. OK up to 8x6 inches for portraits. AA batteries very convenient. Quick download using supplied software. MP3 Ok but hungry on Smartmedia space. Problems: Having a fixed lens (and therefore small aperture), low-light performance and flash range are poor.

I purchased this camera today after returning the sony digtal camera I got for christmas. Better construction, much more attractive and by far loaded with better features. The 16 mb memroy card is nice compared to sony's stupid 4mb stick. The quality of the pictures is better. With added mp3 feature you may want to get another memory card. I plan to get a 32mb card for pictures and use the 16mb card for mp3's. This camera is a must buy if your intersted in having all the bells and whistles ...

The quality of pictures is good. I enjoy the many multimedia capabilities such as shooting short movies, audio recording, audio captioning and listening to mp3 music. Problems: All the controls for brightness, contrast, hue, color and so forth are greyed out when it works as a web cam. The image is extremely dark and there is no way to correct this. I think it is just a driver problem. I installed the software on a computer running WinXP and on another running winME with the same problem. The ...